PART ONE Formations of English Words and Common Morphemes in Medical and Pharmaceutical English Terms 1
PART TWO Reading Materials 45
Chapter One Fundamentals of Medicine 46
Passage 1 Anatomy of Mouse and Human Heart 46
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Anatomy 48
Passage 2 A Framework for the Study of Human Physiology 52
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Physiology 58
Passage 3 Inflammation,Tissue Damage and Repair 63
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Pathology 68
Passage 1 Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!—The InvisibleKiller!(A Chemical Humor) 71
Chapter Two Chemistry 71
Passage 2 Ruthenium,Nitric Oxide and Disease—A Novel Inorganic Chemistry Approach to Drug Design 74
Passage 3 Green Chemistry 78
Passage 4 Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry 81
Passage 5 Introduction to Chemometrics 89
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Chemistry 94
Chapter Three Medicinal Chemistry 98
Passage 1 Medicinal Chemistry 98
Passage 2 Selective Optimization of Side Activities:Another Way for Drug Discovery 100
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Medicinal Chemistry 104
Passage 1 Introduction to Pharmacology:Receptors 116
Chapter Four Pharmacology 116
Passage 2 Therapeutic Drug Monitoring 120
Passage 3 The Pharmacokinetic Basis of Therapeutics 126
Passage 4 Renal Excretion of Drugs 131
Passage 5 First-Pass Effect and Hepatic Drug Metabolism and Nonhepatic Metabolism 134
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Pharmacology 138
Chapter Five Pharmaceutical Analysis 144
Passage 1 The Introduction of GC 144
Passage 2 The Introduction of HPLC 146
Passage 3 Luminescence Spectroscopy 148
Passage 4 Titrimetric Analysis 150
Passage 5 Physical and Instrumental Methods 153
Passage 6 Separation Techniques 154
Passage 7 Key Developments in HPLC 156
Passage 8 Preparation of Drug Samples for Analysis 163
Passage 9 Mass Spectrometry in Pharmaceutical Analysis 164
Passage 10 Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrophotometry 166
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Pharmaceutical Analysis 168
Chapter Six Pharmaceuties 177
Passage 1 The Constituents of a Medicine 177
Passage 2 A Timely Re-examination of Drug Polymorphism in Pharma-ceutical Development and Regulation 181
Passage 3 Pharmaceutics(1) 187
Passage 4 Pharmaceutics(2) 190
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Pharmaceutics 193
Chapter Seven Biochemistry 196
Passage 1 The Many Biological Functions of Proteins 196
Passage 2 Biochemistry and Human Biology 203
Passage 3 Discovering the Chemical Nature of Gene 206
Passage 4 Proteomics 210
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Biochemistry 215
Passage 1 Introduction to Pharmaceutical Microbiology—Microorganisms and Medicine 220
Chapter Eight Microbiology 220
Passage 2 Microbiology Today 228
Passage 3 Control of Bacterial Infection 233
Passage 4 The Microbial World 238
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Microbiology 241
Chapter Nine Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine 252
Passage 1 History of Traditional Chinese Medicine 252
Passage 2 Yin and Yang—the Law of Nature 254
Passage 3 The Causes to Induce Diseases—Etiology 255
Passage 4 A Case 257
Passage 5 The Five-Element Theory—Natural Philosophy in Ancient China 258
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Traditional Chinese Medicine 263
Chapter Ten Traditional Chinese Pharmacy 265
Passage 1 Danshen:An Overview of Its Chemistry,Pharmacology,Pharmacokinetics,and Clinical Use(Part Ⅰ) 265
Passage 2 Danshen:An Overview of Its Chemistry,Pharmacology,Pharmacokinetics,and Clinical Use(Part Ⅱ) 267
Passage 3 Chinese Drug Therapy 269
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Traditional Chinese Pharmacy 273
Chapter Eleven Drug Administration 286
Passage 1 Introduction to GSP,GAP and GLP 286
Passage 2 GCP—Regulations of Investigators 287
Passage 3 GLP 305
Passage 4 GMP—Environmental Control and Microbiological Monitoring 310
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Drug Administration 315
Chapter Twelve Retrieval of Pharmaceutical Information Resources 318
Passage 1 The National Center for Biotechnology Information 318
Passage 2 Cefoperazone Sodium(PH EUR MONOGRAPH 1404) 321
Passage 3 The Sections of Chemical Abstracts 328
Passage 4 General Information Concerning Patents 332
Chapter Thirteen Drug Instructions 339
Passage 1 Pantethine 339
Passage 2 Glyburide and Metformin HCl Tablets,GLUCOVANCE？ 348
Appendix Additional Vocabulary in Drug Instructions 352